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Wisconsin may be the first state to clean up for Trump

The Wisconsin recount may be released this weekend

Officially Biden only leads by 20,000 votes in Wisconsin (WI) but apparently up to 100,000 votes may be tossed out due to one issue alone, and then there is that strange pattern in the counting….

Vote dump in Wisconsin

Vote dump in Wisconsin  | VotePatternAnalysis

In the video below, Steve Turley admits he’s an optimist, and unfortunately uses uses a few hyperbolic words like “implode” and the deadly triple !!!. Despite that, he speaks well and quotes a lot of data. He argues Wisconsin could be the “first domino to fall”, saying that WI does not allow mail in ballots that were not requested. Up to 60,000 mail in ballots in Milwaulkee County and 40,000 in Dane County were never requested and therefore should be tossed out. The State needs to supply the request for application for these mail in ballots. These two counties have 800,000 voters, a quarter of the state’s 3.3 million voters. The Trump Campaign has been forced to spend $3 million to even do a partial recount. The recount needs to be verified before the state can certify votes on December 1.

h/t to Scott of the Pacific

Milwaulkee County voting, Wisconsin, Donald Trump Twitter, Vote Dump Graph.

Milwaulkee County voting  | DailyMail.

Democrats respond to these “baseless” allegations with emergency meetings to change recount rules. Nothing to see here then?

Following that news, Trump re-tweeted a post from Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Andrew Hitt, who claimed that nervous Democrats at the state’s Elections Commission were subsequently trying to alter the recount rules.

‘WI Elections Commission, after seeing President Trump’s recount petition and objections, is trying to change the recount manual at an emergency meeting tonight at 6 pm to make objections harder to make. This must be stopped,’ Hitt wrote.

 

The recount will likely end up in court

Milwaulkee recount could quickly turn into a lawsuit

Patrick Marley and Molly Beck, Milwaulkee Journal Sentinel

Witness addresses

To be valid, absentee ballots in Wisconsin must come in an envelope that is signed by the voter and a witness and include the witness’ address. In cases where witnesses don’t provide their addresses, clerks have been allowed to fill the addresses in if they know that information from talking to the voter, talking to the witness or looking at voter rolls, tax databases or other information.

That policy was set four years ago under guidance pushed by Republicans on the Elections Commission at the time, including Stephen King, who Trump later named as the U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic. Trump didn’t dispute the state’s witness policy when he narrowly won Wisconsin in 2016, but he now says it is illegal. He argues only the voter or witness can write in the address.

Clerks say witnesses often forget to fill out their address or fail to supply a part of it, such as the city or ZIP code. In many cases, the witness is the spouse of the voter and lives at the same address.

Indefinitely confined voters

Most voters must provide a photo ID to get an absentee ballot, but those who identify themselves as indefinitely confined do not. This spring, Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell and Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson suggested voters could label themselves as indefinitely confined if they were staying at home because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The state Republican Party sued and the state Supreme Court found the advice was faulty. The clerks rescinded their advice and pointed voters to guidance from the Elections Commission that noted it’s up to voters to determine for themselves whether they are indefinitely confined.

About 215,000 voters statewide called themselves indefinitely confined from the Nov. 3 election — up from 72,000 in a lower-turnout election for state Supreme Court last year.

Trump argues the ballots should be thrown out for voters who said they were indefinitely confined if they don’t meet the criteria.

Meanwhile In Pennsylvania

In Pennsylvania Turley argues that the heart and soul Republicans are now galvanized by the witnesses Trump presented and are taking this to the RINO’s in the party.

Among the many different allegations of fraud and impropiety in PA are the highly suspicious mail in votes that appear to not even be validated in some counties. Normally 1 – 3% of mail in votes would be rejected due to something about the vote being incorrectly filled in. First timers are more likely to make mistakes, but somehow this year with the record number of mail in votes in Pennsylvania the official rejection rate was just 0.3%. In Montgomery County Pennsylvania there is no record of even one mail in vote being rejected.

As Turley says: This is about the survival of the G.O.P.  Can Trump defeat the Republican Swamp and rescue the party from itself?

For Reference

Rules for voting in different US states

Wisconsin

Wisconsin rules for voting during Covid apparently do allow “curbside voting”.

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